Wednesday 15 November 2017

Grungy, but Feminine?

Hi it's been a couple of days since I posted, not because I haven't been creating, but because there was a cable outage in our area, so we had no internet. So I'm playing catch up.

I started out being inspired by Lorraine and Melissa's ornament (bauble) tags from day 1 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tag Challenge, but mine ended up totally different!


I dry embossed a piece of watercolour paper and die cut the ornament.  Then I swiped some resist ink over the raised part of the pattern and gold embossed.  Next I painted the tag with Twinkling H2Os and gave it another hit with the heat gun to re-activate the embossing powder.  I then stamped the sentiment on white card and gold embossed. I decided to swipe all the edges with resist ink and gold emboss again. I wasn't too worried about the specks of extra gold, because that added to the 'grunge' effect.




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3 comments:

  1. Loll15 November 2017 at 17:08

    This is such a gorgeous tag, Jenny! Love the idea of using a large ornament die. And the technique of dry embossing and then adding the heat embossing on top, looks amazing. Love the colours too. Thanks for joining my tag event! xx

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  2. I Card Everyone16 November 2017 at 02:05

    I'm not into grunge - 'til now! Jenny if this is grungy? I'm IN! LOve your gorgeous tag and that touch of gold really does set off the embossing beautifully! Thanks again for Tag-ing along with us at 25 Days!
    =]

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  3. Nstiz16 November 2017 at 02:31

    How I just love the vintage look you achieved on this ornament! Beautifully done, particularly with all the gold embossing. Love this tag!

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